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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Fast Break: A Reminder of How Coach Karl is Backwards With Respect to Timing J.R. Smith

It is so simple yet Karl can not come to strategies like the following. What you do is start J.R. Smith every game and find out how he's doing in each particular game. If he's terrible, don't play him at all in the 2nd half. If he's alright or great, you do give him more minutes in the 2nd half. But no matter how outstanding Smith is playing, do not have him in very close games in the last 2-3 minutes: he's not mature enough yet for last minute game in the balance decisions.

Karl pretty much has it backwards: he does not want to ever start JR Smith, but then for some strange reason he wants to have him in a very close game in the last couple minutes. This doesn't make any sense to me.
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